Gillespie County, Texas. Gillespie County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, its population was 24,837. The county seat is Fredericksburg. It is located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Gillespie is named for Robert Addison Gillespie, a soldier in the Mexican-American War.
Anne Frank, the little Jewish girl who penned âAnne Frankâs Diaryâ while hiding in an attic from Nazis, was a refugee and her family applied for U.S. visas but were denied. The Truth: Itâs true that Anne Frank became a refugee in the lead up to World War II and was denied entry into the United States. That revelation surfaced in 2007 when the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research discovered a file on Otto Frank, Anne Frankâs father.
The Franks were discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps; only Anneâs father survived. Anne Frankâs diary of her familyâs time in hiding, first published in 1947, has been translated into almost 70 languages and is one of the most widely read accounts of the Holocaust.ritz Pfeffer died from illness in late December 1944 at the Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany. Anne Frankâs father, Otto, was the only member of the group to survive; he was liberated from Auschwitz by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945.